ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,985, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Techniques for path selection in an equidistant uniform metro replication configuration" was invented by Gajanan S. Natu (Cary, N.C.), Vasudevan Subramanian (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Dmitry Tylik (Westborough, Mass.) and Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, a method can include: establishing a bi-directional synchronous replication configuration for a stretched resource configured across first and second sites; determining a first difference between a first maximum normalized total I/O workload of the ...